porfiar

From Old Galician-Portuguese porfiar, perfiar (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from porfía.

• IPA^(key): [poɾfiˈaɾ]

porfiar (first-person singular present porfío, first-person singular preterite porfiei, past participle porfiado)

1. to insist, persist; to argue
   • 1858, Manuel Fernández Magariños, Seor Pedro: Cometa:

     Mais boto a conta do probe que non recolle carolo si non porfía co rico e terquea como o porco

     But I'm counting on the poor who doesn't pick a piece of bread if he doesn't argue with the rich and insist as a pig

   Synonyms: insistir, teimar, terquear

• “perfiar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “perfi” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “porfiar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “porfiar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “porfiar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

From porfia +‎ -ar.

• Hyphenation: por‧fi‧ar

porfiar (first-person singular present porfio, first-person singular preterite porfiei, past participle porfiado)

1. (intransitive) to dispute

   Synonym: disputar

2. (intransitive, transitive) to insist, persist

   Synonyms: insistir, teimar

• porfiado

From porfía +‎ -iar.

• IPA^(key): /poɾˈfjaɾ/ [poɾˈfjaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: por‧fiar

porfiar (first-person singular present porfío, first-person singular preterite porfié, past participle porfiado)

1. to insist, persist; persevere

   porfiar por algo

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   • 1633, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Amar después de la muerta:

     ¡Qué pesadas y qué necias son, pues en cuanto porfían, nunca ha quedado por ellas!

     They're so grating and stubborn! Whenever they persist, he has never said no to them!

2. to argue

• “porfiar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014